LORI TERESA YEARWOOD
TRAUMA-INFORMED JOURNALIST & SPEAKER
LORI TERESA YEARWOOD
TRAUMA-INFORMED JOURNALIST
& SPEAKER
Experience
PUBLICATIONS WHERE MY WORK HAS BEEN RECENTLY FEATURED
JOURNALISM JOBS
The New York Times
Mother Jones
The Washington Post
New Republic
The San Francisco Chronicle
The American Prospect
Slate
The Nation
The Guardian
MIT Technology Review
CNBC
Defector
Working Credit
Current:
The Economic Hardship Reporting Project — National Housing Crisis Reporter
Past:
The Miami Herald — Reporter
The St. Louis Post Dispatch — Reporter
The Syracuse Newspapers — Reporter
Recent Career Highlights
2022 — Yale fellow via the Poynter Institute of Journalism
2022 — USC Annenberg Health Foundation fellow
2021 — Interviewing a teenager experiencing homelessness for The Washington Post. “How did you get out of homelessness?” he asked me.
MOST AMAZING WRITING EXPERIENCE
This is a hard one to pin down! That said, I will say that reconstructing the life of a recently deceased unhoused woman for my 2022 USC fellowship was humbling, devastating and inspiring.
FAVORITE WRITING JOBS
Writing long magazine stories about wise and eccentric people for The Miami Herald’s Tropic Magazine.
LIFE EXPERIENCE FROM WHICH I UNEXPECTEDLY LEARNED
Two years of homelessness, because those two years have given me a much greater awareness and understanding of myself and others.